Transcript Slide 1

Indian Weather Markets…..
Weather Risk Management Services Pvt. Ltd.
Read how organizations describe
their exposure…
Indian Market……
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EID Parry sales, net down 86 pc on monsoon failure. - The Hindu, Jan 17,
2003
The Company's business is seasonal in nature and the performance can be
impacted by weather conditions - Notes to Accounts, Syngenta (I) Ltd.
Monsanto India continued its strong profit growth on the back of positive allround business performance aided by a good monsoon. - Annual Report
2003-04, Monsanto Ltd
The delayed monsoon has hit the fertilizer stocks badly. - Analyst, Hindu
Business Line
Over 1000 farmers commit suicide in vidarbha and Telangana in last two
years – TOI
An average drought costs upto Rs 4 bn to the state exchequer,Gujarat
earthquake resulted in direct damages of about Rs.153 billion -NDMC
Indian Market
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40000
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production
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30000
0
25000
-1000
20000
Function(rainfall*temp)
Impacts Yields
-2000
15000
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-3000
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-5000000
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Production
-10000000
year
Function of rain*temp
production
years
Impacts on Acreages
Impact on Prices
2003
2004
2005
2006
Area Sown
40.908
44.439
41.922
45.501
Yield in
Kg/Hect
1019
824
796
Prices before
sowing (May & 1610
June & July)
Rainfall
1520
1380
Actual % Dep Price
1810 1680 1839
1268
1285
1301
1323
1260
1263
Actual
% Dep
Price
Actual
% Dep
Price
Actual
% Dep
Price
June
129
22
1520
81
-25
1680
82
-24
1285
26
-83
1260
July
315
3
1380
215
-30
1839
379
24
1301
282
1
1263
Aug
216
-32
1250
423
34
1891
132
-58
1265
459
58
1261
Sept
259
45
1380
47
-73
1724
165
-6
1218
257
57
1238
Impact of Weather on Farming
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Makes the earnings volatile, Affects working capital
repayment
Affects contractual obligation
In plantations/ corporate Farming Fixed : Variable cost
ratio is high
High Fixed Costs puts profits under pressure
• When production reduces in the key producing months
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Happens primarily on account of weather
Possibly affects expansion plan when price outlook is
positive
Impact of Weather on Farming
Stages:
Establishment
Time:
15 May-10
June
Rainfall
Index:
Flowering &
Veg Growth
11 June – 31
July
60mm
160mm
Pod Formation &
Maturity
Aug 1 – Sep 30
100mm
When to
harvest ??
Which crop
to go for ??
When to apply
pesticides ??
Seed Sale = f (Acreages, Competition)
Acreage = f (Onset, Price, Credit)
Seed Sale = f (Acreages, Competition)
Acreage = f (Monsoon Onset, Price, Credit)
Around 60% sowing
finishes by 20th July
Seed Sale = f (Acreages, Competition)
Acreage = f (Monsoon Onset, Price, Credit)
Effect of last years prices on acreage
2000
1500
2
1000
1
500
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last years av
price(Rs)
acreage (lha)
3
0
2004
Buldana
2005
Nagpur
2006
Last yrs price(Rs)
Pesticides Sale = f (Acreages, Weather
Conditions during Vegetative growth,
Competition)
Pesticides Sale = f (Acreages, Weather
Conditions during Vegetative growth,
Competition)
Weather & Agri-Value Chain
Credit
Risk
Agro-processor
Farm Equipment
Agro-processor
Higher Inventory
Farm Equipment
Pesticides
Pesticides
Seed
Seed
Loss of sales
opportunity
Agro-processor
Farm Equipment
Fertilizers
Fertilizers
Value Destruction - Weather
Pesticides
Seed
Fertilizers
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Weather Becoming More Extreme
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Extreme rainfall incidents have seen a huge jump in recent decades
over northwest India (including Maharashtra and Gujarat) during the
summer monsoon
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Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather
conditions for more than a decade: from heat waves to cyclones and
from droughts to floods. The death toll due to heat waves in
Rajasthan, Punjab, Gujarat, and Bihar is on the rise
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The coastal regions have been undergoing stronger wind and flood
damage due to storm surges associated with more intense tropical
storms in recent years. Frequent inundation of low lying areas, more
flooding and increase in the salinity of rivers, bays and aquifers in the
coastal regions have occurred more often during the past decade.
Weather risk management
Financial weather risk is the occurrence of an observable
weather event or variability in a measurable weather index
that causes losses either to property or profits for an
individual, government or corporation.
Weather risk management products – packaged as either
(re)insurance or derivatives – are settled off of the same
index that has been determined to cause losses and
reduces weather risk through mitigating payouts.
Manageable weather risks
Temperature
Precipitation
Snowfall
Wind Speed
Streamflow
Sunshine hours
Soil Moisture
Humidity
Hurricanes
A WEATHER INDEX IS GENERALLY CONSTRUCTED AS A FUNCTION OF
FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE AND MAGNITUDE OF EVENT
Weather impacts volume
PRICE
PRICE RISK
MANAGEMENT
x
+
VOLUME
WEATHER RISK
MANAGEMENT
= REVENUE
LOWER
EARNINGS
VOLATILITY
Less volatility equals greater value
Historical Revenues
UNHEDGED
Expected Revenues
Without Weather
Protection
$75 Million
HEDGED
Expected Revenues
With Weather
Protection
$73 Million
U/H
H
Earnings
$75 M
$73 M
EPS
$0.75
$0.73
8x
9x
Stock Price
$6.00
$6.57
Market Cap
$600MM
$657MM
Debt
$100 M
$100 M
COD
8.00 %
7.90 %
Debt Svc
$8.0MM
$7.9MM
Multiple
Reducing the volatility due to weather has a budget cost but increases
returns per unit of risk and can potentially improve stock valuations and
the cost of/access to financing.
Sales Expansion Thru Weather Insurance
Example (Case for possible expansion in sales, faced with high weather risk)
Threshold return on capital
25%
Budget capital
250 lacs
Without Weather Insurance
Sales in an area
160 lacs
Potential profit in an area
50 lacs
Lower profits due to lack of scale
Risk Capital Employed due to
Non Weather Risks
160 lacs
Assumed @ Rs 1 per unit of sales
Risk Capital employed due to
weather
96 lacs
Assumed @ Rs. 0.6 per unit of sales
Return on capital employed
20%
With Weather Insurance
•Larger scale may also ensure
reduction in price of seeds, thereby
facilitating sales
• Several precautionary measures built
in sales process to tackle weather risk,
which inhibit sales; scope for process
improvement
Potential sales in an area
250
Improved sales
Potential profit in an area
Weather Insurance Premium
Profit after Insurance
Risk Capital Employed due to
Non Weather Risks
Risk Capital employed due to
weather
Return on capital employed
125
12
113
Improved profits due to larger scale
@ 8% of Risk Capital due to weather
250
Assumed @ Rs 1 per unit of sales
0
45%
Beating return on capital threshold
Sales can be expanded in several areas where sales are presently subdued due to weather risks
Organizing Real Time Data
On Site wireless Sensors
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Covering important
agricultural zones real
time, at a cost of approx.
Rs.500 per sq.km or Rs.5
per ha
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Generation of Historical
records for any given
long.- lat. Position
Processing of data received
from sensors and converting
it according to specific
product
• Statistical & Neural
Network model
Farmers Console (GIS)
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Building UAV and
Advanced remote sensing
applications to assist this
Spatial Interpolation
RMS error ( under
square root
transformation) ~
2mm
Decision Support System
Forecast
Inputs
Front-end Output
Identification
&
Quantification
of the Risk
Simplified
output in
vernacular
language for
farmers
Scientific
modeling of
risk
Current
Weather
Data
Needs to be customized for Bank’s portfolio
-Crop Planning
-Irrigation planning
-Pest Management
-Yield forecast
-Risk Transfer
Hybrid Products – Filling the Gap
Thank you
More on Monsoon and ENSO
El Nino/La Nina association with all-India summer monsoon rainfall anomalies
during 1871-2001
Number of
years with
…
Deficient
monsoon
Deficit>10
%
Normal
monsoon(ve)
11
11
4
0
1
Other
11
Total
22
El Nino
La Nina
Normal
monsoon
(+ve)
Excess
monsoon
excess>10
%
Total
0
26
9
8
18
23
42
11
87
35
55
19
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